{"id":7940,"date":"2025-10-19T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7940\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:12:21","slug":"one-injured-in-shootout-on-mineral-spring-road-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/7940\/","title":{"rendered":"One injured in shootout on Mineral Spring Road | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. – Reading Police are investigating a shooting this morning near the city’s border with Mt. Penn.<\/p>\n

Officers were dispatched to the 1600 block of Mineral Spring Road around 8:30 a.m. for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n

Arriving officers located a 35-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest.<\/p>\n

“Shortly after we just heard so many sirens,” said Anisa Reinstrom, who lives not far from the scene.<\/p>\n

The victim was transported to Reading Hospital for treatment, and his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening<\/p>\n

A large police presence was observed in the block throughout the morning as officers canvassed the area for evidence. At least two cars were towed from the scene.<\/p>\n

The police activity prompted 16th and Haak Elementary School to briefly operate under “secure action” before resuming a normal school day just after 9:00.<\/p>\n

Police say the victim was involved in a shootout with unknown individuals when he was shot. No additional suspect information is available at this time.<\/p>\n

Neighbors say they’re grateful for the quick response but hope it’s not a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n

“What if it’s becoming, unsafe,” said Reinstrom. “That’s my main worry.”<\/p>\n

Reading Police say this is an active investigation and they’re continuing to gather information.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Reading Police Department at 610-655-6116 or anonymously to Crime Alert Berks at 877-373-991.<\/p>\n

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WFMZ-TV | Vincenzo Davi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Reading Police are investigating a shooting this morning near the city’s border with Mt. Penn.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,736,128,130,129,1306,220],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-police-department","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}